[PATCH 2/2] arm: sunxi: rename clock compatible strings

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Wed Mar 27 16:26:13 EDT 2013


Le 27/03/2013 03:39, Emilio López a écrit :
> During the introduction of the Allwinner SoC platforms, sunxi was
> initially meant as a generic name for all the variants of the Allwinner
> SoC.
> 
> It was ok at the time of the support of only the A10 and A13 that
> look pretty much the same; but it's beginning to be troublesome with
> the future addition of the Allwinner A31 (sun6i) that is quite
> different, and would introduce some weird logic, where sunxi would
> actually mean in some case sun4i and sun5i but without sun6i...
> 
> Moreover, it makes the compatible strings naming scheme not consistent
> with other architectures, where usually for this kind of compability, we
> just use the oldest SoC name that has this IP, so let's do just this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Emilio López <emilio at elopez.com.ar>

Applied,
Thanks!

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